Life's handicap: being stories of mine own people

Kipling, Rudyard

Verlag: London: Macmillan and Co., 1907

Beschreibung

Kipling, Rudyard. Life's handicap: being stories of mine own people. London: Macmillan and Co., 1907. Hardback, VG. Red cloth bumped to corners and spine, with some age-discolouration and various marks. Front decorated in gilt with roundel enclosing illustration of an elephant and Kipling's favourite Hindu good luck symbol (unfortunately later adopted by the Nazis as the swastika). Gilt lettering to spine, a little faded. Binding strong and tight. Some tanning/foxing to endpapers. xiv, 407pp., with final unpaginated poem. Top edge of page block in gilt. Contents clean and bright. Kipling was 25 and already a phenomenon when Life's Handicap was published in London and New York in 1891. Only three of the volume's 27 tales appeared here for the first time, the others having first seen the light of day in various magazines and other collections. Almost all the tales are set in India and they testify to Kipling's vocation, to educate and thrill the British (and the Americans) with an inventory of the sounds and colours, delights and horrors, duties and passions to be experienced in the East. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1657895100483

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Life's handicap: being stories of mine own ...

Verlag: London: Macmillan and Co.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1907

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good